★★★★☆ Saheem Ali directs a hot cast in a sitcom/rom-com that brings back lightweight fare just when needed
Trevor: Oscar-Winning Short Film Turns Into Overlong Musical
★★★☆☆ Story which spearheaded The Trevor Project comes to the musical comedy stage
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord: Performance Artist Wong Sews Masks Powerfully
★★★★☆ Founding a mask-making aggregate gives the activist incentive for excoriating the nation’s Pandemic response
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992: Anna Deavere Smith’s Stage Documentary Brilliantly Back
★★★★★ Taibi Magar directs a versatile five-member cast in a harsh look at racism then and now
Mrs. Warren’s Profession: Shaw’s Steadfast Feminism Tidily Displayed
★★★★☆ Gingold Theatrical Group’s David Staller capably directs a Shavian cast, featuring Karen Ziemba and Robert Cuccioli
Dana H.: Deirdre O’Connell Brilliant in Lucas Hnath’s Portrait of His Mother
★★★★☆ A lip-synched verbatim account on the five-month-long kidnapping of the playwright’s mother.
Thoughts of a Colored Man: Seven Men Splendidly Declare Who/Why They Are
★★★★★ Keenan Scott II’s new play delves into the complex and cogent subject of Black men’s lives mattering
Letters of Suresh: The Importance of Letter-Writing Admirably Proclaimed
★★★★☆ Rajiv Joseph’s spiritual play with completely in-tune director May Adrales and cast, featuring Ramiz Monsef
Is This A Room: Chilling Verbatim FBI Investigation Into Government Whistleblower
★★★★☆ Conceiver-director Tina Satter’s careful replication of shocking case, with Emily Davis as suspect Reality Winner
Chicken & Biscuits: Dysfunctional Family Becomes Beautifully Functional
★★★★☆ Douglas Lyons’s dramedy brought to pulsing life by director Zhailon Levingston and top-notch cast